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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024

Filed:

Mar. 12, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sridhar Prakasam, Fremont, CA (US);

Karthik Anantharaman, Cupertino, CA (US);

Krisztian Kiss, Hayward, CA (US);

Nirlesh Koshta, Karnataka, IN;

Nitin Kuppelur, Bangalore, IN;

Xiangpeng Jing, Palto Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 8/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 8/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/042 (2013.01);
Abstract

User equipment devices (UEs) and methods are described for performing single network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI)-aware public land mobile network (PLMN) selection in a roaming scenario. A mapping list is received that includes a mapping of a plurality of public land mobile networks (PLMNs) to corresponding S-NSSAI values. The mapping list is received from a home PLMN (HPLMN) of the UE over non-3rd generation partnership (non-3GPP) access, from a server, or from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS) subscriber identity module (USIM) of the UE. An available PLMN is determined that is mapped to a preferred S-NSSAI value of the UE based on the mapping list. A connection is established with the available PLMN.


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